Interview with Haydn Keenan

Haydn Keenan made three feature films, including the much reviled and also admired Pandemonium in the 1980s. Now, though, Haydn is up and running with a four-part documentary series called Persons of Interest, on the activities of ASIO in the 60s and 70s.

Have you ever tried to call up your ASIO file? I haven't—yet—though a lot of people have. Some have been rather disappointed. But for decades ASIO officers spent hours and hours and hours filming, photographing and recording Australians at street demonstrations, and in other activities. Haydn has seen quite a bit of the footage: and he wants to hear from some of the good folk who took it.

Persons of Interest, a four-part documentary series commissioned by SBS, will reveal the previously secret ASIO files of four Australians. As part of the research, Smart Street would like to talk to anyone who believes they were spied upon, or who worked in any capacity for ASIO and would like to talk—in complete confidence.